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Trace Vault is a British free-to-air music channel owned by TRACE Group. It originally launched as a late night (3am to 6am) service called Video Vault on 12 March 2003. It was renamed The Vault on 16 July 2003 and increased hours to 8pm to 6am, then expanded to 24 hours a day on 17 September 2003. The channel plays nostalgic music and classic pop from the 1960s onwards to the early 2010s, occasionally featuring music videos and concert footage from as early as at least the 1950s. it also features a few classic entertainment shows from the 90s and early 00s.

The Vault logo is on screen in the top left-hand corner during music videos and the song information fades in and out, at the bottom of the screen, at the start and near the end of each music video.

The channel was launched on Freeview in November 2017, replacing Chart Show TV, but was removed on 7 November 2018 and its slot being replaced by its former sister channel True Movies +1. The channel was also available on Freesat channel 501 since the platform's launch until its removal on 21 October 2019, when it was replaced by Christmas Starz.

On 1 November 2019, the channel rebranded as Trace Vault following TRACE's takeover of Sony's music channels. The last song to be played before the rebrand was "Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake but was cut half way through the song.